ImageCat is pleased to announce an award from the GEO-GEE Programme to facilitate deployment of the Google Earth Engine in support of the ImageCat’s 4-year NASA grant Open Critical Infrastructure Exposure for Disaster Forecasting, Mitigation and Response.

22 Jul 2020

ImageCat is pleased to announce an award from the GEO-GEE Programme to facilitate deployment of the Google Earth Engine in support of the ImageCat’s 4-year NASA grant Open Critical Infrastructure Exposure for Disaster Forecasting, Mitigation and Response. CIESIN at Columbia University and Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) are partners of ImageCat in the NASA project. The award will facilitate rapid technical progress through Google Earth Engine’s ground-breaking processing and classification algorithms and will result in data and techniques that will be made available to the communities worldwide addressing Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaption challenges. In addition, the award will allow ImageCat to strengthen connections with the GEO Work Program’s activities such as GEO-DARMA, EO4SDG, GUOI, and the Human-Planet project (involving both CIESIN and ImageCat) to advance SDG objectives. The grant, Open Critical Infrastructure Exposure for Disaster Forecasting, Mitigation and Response, is funded under the NASA Disasters program and focuses on development of novel methods of extracting critical infrastructure data from EO data.

ImageCat, Inc., is a Long Beach, CA. company specializing in innovative solutions to natural hazard risk assessment and management. ImageCat offers solutions towards building a more resilient future using earth observation data and geospatial technologies.

CIESIN, the Center for International Earth Science Information Network is a research and data center at the Earth Institute of Columbia University addresses key issues at the intersection of human and environmental systems, including seminal work on multi-hazard exposure, vulnerability, and risk; climate change impacts and adaptation; geospatial data development and integration; applications of new data science approaches to sustainable development challenges; and development of state-of-the-art decision support tools and services.

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping. HOT works to provide map data which revolutionizes disaster management, reduces risks, and contributes to achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

The announcement and full list of award recipients can be found here at the GEO website.